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...what future awaits "spread the wealth," a similar bromide uttered by Barack Obama to Joe the Plumber at a rally in Ohio? The history of this expression can also be traced to a movie: Hello, Dolly, released in 1969 and never before now regarded as subversive. But perhaps it deserves a closer look. It starred Barbra Streisand, a notorious Hollywood lefty who also starred in The Way We Were, the 1973 weepie that glamorized frizzy-haired communists and left-wing agitators from New York City and derogated real Americans like handsome blond Robert Redford. In Hello, Dolly, Streisand plays...
Words Away RE: "War of the Words" [Oct. 20]. I read with pleasure your list of archaisms that might be deleted from the dictionary. I found that some of the words listed are very similar (in sound and meaning) to Italian words that are commonly used in spoken and written language. They might not be used every day, perhaps, but they are used by intellectuals, in letters, newspapers and broadcasts. Apodeictic, muliebrity, mansuetude, even caducity, caliginosity, nitid, agrestic, roborant or vilipend have Latin or Greek roots that are very familiar to me and most high school graduates...
...Obama campaign is similar to other campaigns that ran predominantly on a ticket of “change” against a party which had been in power for some time. Both Tony Blair in the U.K. in 1997, and Gerhard Schroeder a year later in Germany, harnessed the power of such a message in unseating center-right opponents who had ruled for more than a decade. If the tide of history is behind a challenger pushing “change,” it is one of the most powerful forces in politics...
...doesn’t always work. In the British election of 1992, Neil Kinnock ran a similar campaign and lost narrowly to a post-Thatcher Conservative Party which had been in power for 13 years. John Major, who won, succeeded in distancing himself from Mrs. Thatcher, who by then had become unpopular both inside and outside her party, particularly over the issue of greater ties with Europe. Similarly, John McCain has attempted to move away from the Bush administration...
...only new for us on campus, but marks a new trend in the production of the dance form globally,” says Amrapali Maitra ’10, who directed last year’s performance. “They are exploring the dance form in similar ways as professionals are in India.” “Kalpanam” brings together professional-caliber dancing with a story that speaks to new audiences. Maitra admires the craft and creativity that the production’s group of dancers bring to the stage...